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福气 fúqi “good fortune” in Chinese

Traditional 福氣

What 福气 means

  1. good fortune
  2. luck
  3. a blessing

How to say 福气

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale福fú2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own气qineutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

福气 in a sentence

  1. 有这么好的孩子，真是你的福气。

    Yǒu zhème hǎo de háizi, zhēn shì nǐ de fúqi.

    You’re lucky to have such good children.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 能吃是福气。

    Néng chī shì fúqi.

    Having a good appetite is a blessing.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 福气 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 福 (fú) with each of its parts in a different colour
福fúgood fortune
  • 礻sign form of 示 · shìMeaning part
  • 畐to fillSound part

礻 hints at the meaning (sign); 畐 () hints at the sound. Compare it with fú.

The character 气 (qì) drawn as one shape
气qigas; air

气 is a single shape of 4 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

Memory aidDrawn from layers of vapour rising: air, steam, breath.

How to write 福气

福 13 strokes · 气 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

福气 (fúqi) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 福气 (fúqi). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 福气

Words with 福

幸福xìngfú · happiness祝福zhùfú · blessing福利fúlì · welfare

Words with 气

天气tiānqì · weather不客气bú kèqi · you’re welcome生气shēngqì · angry气qì · air力气lìqi · strength空气kōngqì · air气候qìhòu · climate脾气píqi · temper淘气táoqì · naughty小气xiǎoqì · stingy

More words: Ideas & Concepts

负担fùdān · burden幅度fúdù · range符号fúhào · symbol复活fùhuó · to come back to life高潮gāocháo · climax高峰gāofēng · peak高涨gāozhǎng · to rise格局géjú · structure

FAQs

福气 (fúqi) means “good fortune” or “luck”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it fúqi: fú with a 2nd tone, then qi with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 福气 is written 福氣. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fuqi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 福气 from the suggestions. Typing fuqi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
福气 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.